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BJP
sweeps local bodies polls in Gujarat
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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Gandhinagar:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) virtually swept the Gujarat local
bodies elections Saturday bagging 22 of the 24 district panchayats
and 36 of the 52 municipalities.
The party's winning streak appeared to continue in the taluka
panchayat elections as early result trends showed that the BJP was
set to bag 176 of the total 208 talukas. The Congress had an upper
hand in 30.
Polls to 24 district panchayats, 208 taluka panchayats and 53
municipalities with 2.48 crore eligible voters took place Oct 21.
A total of 17,908 candidates were in the fray for 804 district
panchayat seats, 4,071 taluka panchayat seats and 1,890
municipality seats.
Earlier this month, the BJP took control of all the six key
municipal corporations of Gujarat -- Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot,
Surat, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar.
In the just-concluded district panchayat polls, the Congress won
the Gandhinagar and Tapi seats.
But the party lost control of Dabhoi municipality in Vadodara
district which is part of the assembly constituency of Gujarat
Congress president Siddhartha Patel.
The four taluka panchayats in which the Congress had an edge were
Kapadvanj, Dehgam, Keshod and Bagasara.
Though the Congress lost the Porbandar district panchayat poll, it
was tied with the BJP in Porbandar municipality with 21 seats each
out of a total of 42.
The Congress controlled six district panchayats, 20 taluka
panchayats and six municipalities before the polls.
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